Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ploy usually works since audiences enjoy melodrama. Change the century's villain from a landlord to the communists, the hero from a farm boy to the F.B.I., the issue from this month's rent to atom bomb secrets, and a skillful director can guide unknown actors toward familiar outcomes to the satisfaction of everyone involved. Jerry Hooper is one skillful director...
...Atomic City opens with a bang, the biggest bang of the century -- an atomic bomb explosion. This, plus the setting of part of the plot in Los Alamos, the Oak Ridge of the Southwest, gives the film its title. But the legend of Simon Legree gives it its plot...
...should a modern artist react to the atomic age? In Venice last week, 13 Italian painters who call themselves "spatialists" and "nuclearists" gave their answer with an exhibit "inspired by the atomic bomb." The canvases were almost as explosive as the bomb itself: furious fireballs of bright colors and bold contrasts. Prizewinning explosion: a churning blue and green fantasy by a 27-year-old artist named Gianni Dova. At the top of his painting was a dripping black splash with a fiery red spot. The impression he hopes to give, says Dova, is that the splash is alive, and will...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...
...scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...